The secret purchase of the top of the stairs Gabriel watches the guest arrive at her parents at seven. She knows she is an intruder in her parents life later hiding in a closet to click click click over her mothers high heels and she was told that she is to blame for her mothers rage and her father failure to protect her Even as a child. Her only escapes to the story she writes grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world in a young priest comes into her life.